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RE: Why does ls report some directory dates as future?


I've got the same problem with just one of about 15 users, but the bogus
time appears  on some files on the local hard drive (but not on LAN drives).
We kept thinking it was a problem with backup sofware or auditing software
that was screwing up the time stamps. I didn't realize it was a Cygwin issue
until I saw the "date from hell" posted here!

I'll log in to his machine later today and see what he's got for Cygwin
configuration and see what I find. We're supposedly using B20.1 with a
cygwin1.dll from a snapshot - but obviously he must be using a slightly
different version as none of the other users encounter this.

  Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of John Wiersba
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 10:34 AM
> To: 'dwsharp@iee.org'; gnuwin32
> Subject: RE: Why does ls report some directory dates as future?
>
>
> I've seen this with an older version of cygwin (at least a year old).  The
> older version reports a directory (not a file) as having a date
> of 4/22/2009
> instead of the correct date.  I've only seen this for LAN directories, not
> local directories.  The newest version of cygwin doesn't have
> this behavior.
>
> -- John Wiersba
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Don Sharp [mailto:Don.Sharp@dddandr.octacon.co.uk]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 11:42 AM
> > To: gnuwin32
> > Subject: Why does ls report some directory dates as future?
> >
> >
> > I got no reaction to my previous submission so I am again seeking
> > comments, reasons, references, which will explain why
> > when I did an "ls -l" in / I got dates in the future which the NT dir
> > command says are current.
> >
> > total 71
> > drwxr-xr-x  19 don      None            0 Apr 22  2009 dosc	<<<
> > drwxr-xr-x   6 don      None            0 Apr 22  2009 dosn	<<<
> > drwxr-xr-x   6 don      None            0 Apr 22  2009 dosi	<<<
> > drwxr-xr-x   6 don      None            0 Apr 22  2009 dosh	<<<
> > drwxr-xr-x  28 don      None            0 Apr 22  2009 dosf	<<<
> > drwxr-xr-x   6 don      None            0 Apr 22  2009 dosd	<<<
> > -rw-r--r--   1 don      None         3550 Oct 17 18:22 setup.log
> > -rw-r--r--   1 don      None        34578 Oct 17 18:22 setup.log.full
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 don      None           48 Oct 17 18:22 cygwin.bat
> > -rw-r--r--   1 don      None          766 Oct 17 18:22 cygwin.ico
> > drwxr-xr-x   3 don      None            0 Oct  5 15:26 home
> > -rw-r--r--   1 don      None         4588 Sep 29 16:02
> > READMEopengl-1.1.0-2.txt
> > -rw-r--r--   1 don      None            0 Sep 29 14:24 d_context
> > drwxr-xr-x  11 don      None         4096 Sep 26 20:35 dosj
> > drwxr-xr-x   4 don      None            0 Sep 26 20:22 var
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 don      None            0 Sep 26 20:22 bin
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 don      None            0 Sep 26 20:22 tmp
> > drwxr-xr-x   5 don      None            0 Sep 26 20:22 lib
> > drwxr-xr-x   4 don      None            0 Sep 26 17:32 etc
> > drwxr-xr-x   4 don      None            0 Sep 26 17:26 cygwin
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 don      None            0 Sep 26 17:06 RECYCLED
> > drwxr-xr-x  14 don      None            0 Sep 17 05:23 usr
> > -rw-r--r--   1 don      None        91395 Nov 27  1999 po-mode.el
> >
> > whereas from a cmd window using "dir" I got
> >
> >  Volume in drive G is CYGWINPOSIX
> >  Volume Serial Number is B8C9-9DAD
> >
> >  Directory of G:\
> >
> > 26/09/00  17:26         <DIR>          cygwin
> > 26/09/00  17:32         <DIR>          etc
> > 26/09/00  20:22         <DIR>          bin
> > 26/09/00  20:22         <DIR>          lib
> > 26/09/00  20:22         <DIR>          tmp
> > 17/09/00  05:23         <DIR>          usr
> > 26/09/00  20:22         <DIR>          var
> > 17/10/00  18:22                    766 cygwin.ico
> > 17/10/00  18:22                 34,578 setup.log.full
> > 17/10/00  18:22                  3,550 setup.log
> > 29/09/00  14:24                      0 d_context
> > 27/11/99  21:51                 91,395 po-mode.el
> > 05/10/00  15:21                 65,693 .vimrc
> > 05/10/00  15:26         <DIR>          home
> > 05/10/00  15:29         <DIR>          dosc
> > 05/10/00  15:29         <DIR>          dosd
> > 05/10/00  15:29         <DIR>          dosf
> > 05/10/00  15:29         <DIR>          dosh
> > 05/10/00  15:29         <DIR>          dosi
> > 05/10/00  15:29         <DIR>          dosj
> > 05/10/00  15:29         <DIR>          dosn
> > 13/10/00  21:39                  1,036 .bash_history
> > 29/09/00  16:02                  4,588 READMEopengl-1.1.0-2.txt
> > 17/10/00  18:22                     48 cygwin.bat
> >               24 File(s)        201,654 bytes
> >                               7,622,656 bytes free
> >
> > Note no dates in the future. Note that dosj has a different date too.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Don Sharp
> >
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